The album is done. It doesn't take more than a month to prepare for a release, no matter what anyone might tell you. Some bands today have long slow processes for an album release, but most bands are not going out on the kind of tour that DMB is.

It's already going to be very akward having a month of shows before the album, but some of you actually believe the bulk of the entire tour will go by before release. LMAO. Not a chance in hell.

June 5th is the only release date that makes any sense to me.

book it. July 1st earliest. also you've been reported for LMAO. i don't care for this kind of sarcasm

It can take any length of time. We are making a lot of assumptions based on NO reliable information, other than Twitter spice. I fully expect a big announcement tomorrow (May1st) actually. If they've been preparing the marketing schedule and promos, and have a single picked, we could hear it as early as this week or next. A June 5th release date is the earliest possible, and I personally think this is what they are shooting for. We'll see.

Yes I do. I could be wrong, but so what? I don't think I am. However, with the release date of LiveTrax 22 now known, I think there is a great chance that the album release will coincide with that.

So, it's May 2nd. No announcement. Good thing you're not a betting man.

Really, it is unrealistic to think the band is going to release an album a month or so from now with no promotion.

It's highly possible that while mixing is done, Ted Jansen won't get around to mastering it for a while if he has a full schedule.

Also, maybe the rumour about the EP was backwards? Maybe an EP will come out prior to the tour (or at the beginning of it), with the album afterwards? I know nothing that any official source has leaned that way, but it was just a thought I had.

For handicapping Lillywhite's awesome work with DMB with excessive dynamic range compression. He has gone from bad to worse with the DMB albums he's mastered.

Good dynamic range = 11+dB of dynamics. With values in brackets here are Jensen's contributions to DMB.

UTTAD (9)
Crash (9)
BTCS (8)
BS (8)
BWGK (6)

What's next for the 2012 album? 5? 4? 3? Death Magnetic seems to be the poster child for the loudness wars, Jensen mastered it then claimed afterwards that he wasn't proud to be associated with it after everyone said it sounds like shit.

Dynamics on Big Whiskey are terrible. Even the other albums are nowhere close to being "Good".

For handicapping Lillywhite's awesome work with DMB with excessive dynamic range compression. He has gone from bad to worse with the DMB albums he's mastered.

Good dynamic range = 11+dB of dynamics. With values in brackets here are Jensen's contributions to DMB.

UTTAD (9)
Crash (9)
BTCS (8)
BS (8)
BWGK (6)

What's next for the 2012 album? 5? 4? 3? Death Magnetic seems to be the poster child for the loudness wars, Jensen mastered it then claimed afterwards that he wasn't proud to be associated with it after everyone said it sounds like shit.

Dynamics on Big Whiskey are terrible. Even the other albums are nowhere close to being "Good".

For handicapping Lillywhite's awesome work with DMB with excessive dynamic range compression. He has gone from bad to worse with the DMB albums he's mastered.

Good dynamic range = 11+dB of dynamics. With values in brackets here are Jensen's contributions to DMB.

UTTAD (9)
Crash (9)
BTCS (8)
BS (8)
BWGK (6)

What's next for the 2012 album? 5? 4? 3? Death Magnetic seems to be the poster child for the loudness wars, Jensen mastered it then claimed afterwards that he wasn't proud to be associated with it after everyone said it sounds like shit.

Dynamics on Big Whiskey are terrible. Even the other albums are nowhere close to being "Good".